Grand. The ONLY machine that I keep on all the time that could serve this purpose is my WHS2011 box that also serves up the videos. I can't get it to serve the file, I get some cryptic error message: "HTTP Error 404.17 - Not Found The requested content appears to be script and will not be served by the static file handler." I tried to find a fix, but nothing out there worked and I got tired of messing with it.

I guess I'll stick to restarting the service whenever I want to watch videos. Why can't anything ever be simple??? :/ Thanks for your reply though!

Nearest I can tell all mkv's are failing. Divx and other movie types play fine. Attached is the debug log. I tried increasing -Xmx256m to Xmx512m but dont think that is the problem because it fails as soon as I hit play. Can someone help?

Total Streambaby (and TiVo) noob here. Java is definitely installed (I did it manually to make sure), but when I try to run Streambaby, I get a "Java not recognized" error in the DOS window. Any thoughts?

Just because there seems to be a lot of unsolved issues on the offical Streambaby site that aren't being addressed.......

I would like to know how to get images (movie covers) to show in the list and/or description of the movies I have on my server...... I can get the meta description and such, but haven't found a way to display the image of the movie.

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Just curious, why do you think Streambaby needs updating? I have had no issues with Streambaby in the several years I have been using it on my S3.

Total Streambaby (and TiVo) noob here. Java is definitely installed (I did it manually to make sure), but when I try to run Streambaby, I get a "Java not recognized" error in the DOS window. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

You may need to edit the bat file to point to the Java executable. I had to do this for the setup I have on Windows Home Server 2011.

I recently took a bedroom Series 2 out of the rotation, replacing it with the former living room Tivo HD which was, in turn, replaced by a new Premiere. Ahhh, the Circle of Life...

Anyhoo, despite renaming the FORMER living room device as "Bedroom" under DVR Preferences, Streambaby continues to see it as "Living room" for push purposes and sees the new Premiere as "Living room(2)."

I can't imagine what else I can do at Tivo.com. Could the problem be on Streambaby's end?

Does the renamed box actually show its new name under System Information? You might need to force a few connections from the TiVo for it to "take" and then restarting streambaby should pick up the new name as well.

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Please help. I had streambaby working for several years and now my tivo won't recognize Streambaby anymore. I don't see the option in the music, videos, menu option.

I have a series 3. I have tried rebooting the computers and tivo but no luck.

I tried tivo desktop as well on a laptop with windows 7 (64 bit) and desktop with vista and that didn't work.

On the new install of streambaby on windows 7 laptop (with eset software), my error is : unable to load ffmepg native libraries

I put streambaby here:
C:\streambaby-0.29

I have this file in that folder: ffmpeg-dist.tar.bz2

I tried unzipping it but no luck.

Is this my problem? Please help.

I did just install dar.fm recently don't know if that screwed anything up or not.

I really need this to work because I put photo music videos of my kids together and that keeps them dancing and busy for 20-40 minutes making my life much easier. Of course, I have tried to put some new ones together and then push them to my tivo but alas, I can't.

PLEASE HELP a parent in need.

I'm a computer programmer but I would easily pay for an app like this as it has in the past made my life so much easier.

I would suggest now that you have 32 bit java installed, simply unzip streambaby-0.29.zip in a brand new directory. The first time you launch streambaby.bat it should connect and download the ffmpeg binaries it needs under the "native" folder. Then things should work normally. Make sure if you have any firewall active that it is not blocking Java.

Also remember you need to have streambaby.ini edited with at least 1 valid path to where your videos are located. The "#" character is a comment, so you should have dir.1 uncommented and pointing to a valid path on your PC.

Hoping someone can shed some light on my challenge. I am new to StreamBaby...old to Tivo.

I installed StreamBaby on a network machine (Win7) and my Tivo's can see and access the directory structure just fine. I have ripped a test DVD "Thomas the Train" for the kiddo using Make MKV on a MAC. The MKV plays fine in PLEX and when I attempt to play it on a networked Tivo via StreamBaby I receive the error message "Incompatible Video Stream".

It was my impression that StreamBaby could read and transcode MKV's to the Tivo...can anyone suggest what I might be overlooking?

It seems the MKV's I was making on the MAC were not able to be read by StreamBaby on the PC. A little weird I thought.....but when I put StreamBaby in verbose debug mode I saw that StreamBaby could not determine the container type. I assumed that a MKV would be a dual binary and could be viewed accross the different OS's but I guess not.

I installed MakeMKV on the PC...reripped and eveything played as it should.

One question though - is there a way to get metadata for the Rip so I don;t have 12 files 0.mkv, 1.mkv, 2.mkv etc? Is there a way to get title and chapter info?

It seems the MKV's I was making on the MAC were not able to be read by StreamBaby on the PC. A little weird I thought.....but when I put StreamBaby in verbose debug mode I saw that StreamBaby could not determine the container type. I assumed that a MKV would be a dual binary and could be viewed accross the different OS's but I guess not.

I installed MakeMKV on the PC...reripped and eveything played as it should.

One question though - is there a way to get metadata for the Rip so I don;t have 12 files 0.mkv, 1.mkv, 2.mkv etc? Is there a way to get title and chapter info?

Thanks,

Squid

Are you ripping from a dvd? If so, rip to one large vob and then do the conversion. Mp4 would be better than mkv as it will stream to the tivo without transcoding. If this does not answer your question, what are the '12 files' ?

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Mp4 would be better than mkv as it will stream to the tivo without transcoding

What effect will this have on quality....expecially on Blu-Ray?

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what are the '12 files'

I believe the 12 files are the chapters of content from the DVD. What brought me to this point is MakeMKV just titles the files 0-12.mkv so by looking at the filenames you get no idea of what you are going to get when you play. I guess I could open each up watch and rename but I was hoping there would be some kind of metadata lookup....should I be looking at another option?

Ok i love streambaby. I prefer it over the other solutions cause it allows me to stream files (i dont like moving files to my Tivo if i can avoid it). I have all my files sitting on a Windows home server and i just discovered last night that i can add metadata and get it to show up in Streambaby. I got normal metadata to show up using metagenerator but then i found this:

# Added metadata parsing. Metadata is displayed on "Play" screen and when pressing the info button while playing

* Metadata is looked for in the form "filename.mpg.xxx" where xxx the metadata extension.
* Metadata is looked for in the same directory of the video file, or in a subdirectory of the directory where the main file is called .meta
* Metadata supported:
* .txt files- Either a pyTivo metadata file or a standard txt file (autodetected)
* .html
* .xml
* .gif, .png, .jpg: Use as straight images. New config property info.preserveaspect=true to control if img is allowed to be stretched

This leads me to believe i can add images also. I tried an images as filename.jpg and folder.jpg in the same folder as the MKV but it didnt show up anywhere. What do i need to do to get the image to show up in streambaby.

I wanted to post this since i had to dig deep for this. Special thanks to dlfl for putting me on the correct path in the other thread.

Here is a WORKING txt file for streambaby metadata. This is a metagenerator file that just has an image : tag added.

[Note: The image tag must be all lowercase] and you need a space before and after the colon. I have the text file and the movie file in the same directory so i just needed to add:

image : Expendables.jpg
.......
Hope this helps! Now to try to get a metagenerator that also does images!

How to get metadata images working in streambaby

And thank you, tomm1079 ! I wasted a lot of time trying to get this to work and then finally noticed the part in your post about the image tag having to be all lower case, which was what I had wrong. I swear I've seen it specified as being capitalized several places in this thread!

I've been playing with the MetaGenerator code and it's trivially easy to dump JPG (or other image formats if preferable) files of the cover art it retrieves. I haven't been able to contact the program's primary author yet, but I think there will be a revised version one way or another.

What I will program unless someone has other suggestions is the meta image will be a JPG created in the same folder as the video (with the pyTivo metadata file) with the name <video>.<ext>.jpg and the appropriate image tag line will be included in the pyTivo metadata file. This will be an option -- operation without the image stuff will still be there.

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